opening vim with a flag: ready to write?

[Gary Kline]

On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 07:11:20PM -0600, Robert Bonomi wrote:
> Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2011 19:11:20 -0600 (CST)
> From: Robert Bonomi <bonomi at mail.r-bonomi.com>
> Subject: Re: opening vim with a flag: ready to write?
> To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org, kline at thought.org
> Cc: 
> 
> > From owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org  Wed Dec 14 18:46:46 2011
> > Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2011 16:42:31 -0800
> > From: Gary Kline <kline at thought.org>
> > To: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions at freebsd.org>
> > Cc: 
> > Subject: opening vim with a flag: ready to write?
> >
> >
> > hi y'all:)
> >
> > i am making steady progress in learning gtk.  i'll spare the list my
> > usual rambling and get rt to the point.
> >
> > is the a way of starting off vim or gvim and be able to type into
> > the editor _without_ first typing:
> >
> >     a,i,o,O,I,A, or any other character?
> 
> 
> Did you bother to look at the manpage for the program in question, *BEFORE* 
> mailing the list??
> 
> If so, what did you find?  What did you try? And what were the results?
> 
> If not, *WHY*NOT*??  be specific.

	of course i checked the man page; that doesnt mean there is
	some undocumented method that someone here found.

> 
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